Picture something whole that is too big to hand over in one go, so it is cut into equal parts and given out one part at a time, with a wait in between. The word never names the whole thing. It names one of the parts. That is true when the whole thing is a sum of money and you pay a piece of it each month, and it is just as true when the whole thing is a story and one piece of it reaches you each week. Both uses answer the same question: which piece is this, and how many are still coming?

「instalment」可以想成一個太大、沒辦法一次交出去的東西,被切成一份一份,隔一段時間給一份。這個字從來不是指整個東西。它指的是其中一份。整個東西是一筆錢時,你每個月交一份,那一份就是 instalment。整個東西是一個故事時,你每週收到一段,那一段也是 instalment。兩種用法都在回答同一個問題:這是第幾份,後面還剩幾份。

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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

instalmentnoun/ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/

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    Australia, UK, and Canada standard spelling of installment.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。